Faith Quotes

God is perceived by the heart, not by your reason. But what is reason? Your heart simplifying God’s guidance to fit your own needs.

~ Shannon L. Alder

It is a part of our nature to survive. Faith is an instinctive response to aspects of existence that we cannot explain by any other means, be it the moral void we perceive in the universe, the certainty of death, the mystery of the origin of things, the meaning of our lives, or the absence of meaning. These are basic and extremely simple aspects of existence, but our limitations prevent us from responding in an unequivocal way and for that reason we generate an emotional response, as a defense mechanism. It's pure biology.

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

And here she was. Lying on the floor of a dusty, empty, locked room thinking how grateful she felt.She smiled, though it hurt tremendously to do so, thinking how blessed she had been to have spent twelve years with the most precious gifts from God. She felt honored that they called her mother. She knew she had done the best she could teaching them about life and love, faith and family. Margo lay slowly dying from the wounds inflicted by a monster, but she was at peace. Because though the devil meant it for evil, God turned it to good.

~ Karen Luellen

Souls reconstructed with faith transform agony into peace.

~ Aberjhani

Faith is only as good as the one in whom it's invested.

~ Lee Strobel

Our forgiving love toward men is the evidence of God's forgiving love in us. It is a necessary condition of the prayer of faith.

~ Andrew Murray

The purpose that you wish to find in life, like a cure you seek, is not going to fall from the sky. ...I believe purpose is something for which one is responsible; it's not just divinely assigned.

~ Michael J. Fox

God has arranged strange ways for some of us to find him. Sometimes He brings us on long physical journeys; sometimes He leaves us at home and makes the journey internal. Yours has been both. You have gone a long way and struggled a great deal, but I can see from your eyes that it was not for nothing.

~ Abigail J. Hartman

Faith isn't absence of doubt. It's belief without proof, not without question.

~ Rosemary Clement-Moore

Faith is a quiet certainty that there is both a higher purpose to life and a higher power that oversees that purpose. Faith is knowing that we do not have to go it alone during our darkest hours and, even when we feel utterly victimized and weak, there is still something brighter, purer, and more potent than anything we can imagine that cares enough to reach out and offer a shoulder for us to lean upon. The object of faith takes many forms and many names, but the universal truth is faith itself.

~ Michelle Belanger

It takes years and maturity to make the discovery that the power of faith is nobler than the power of doubt; and that there is a celestial wisdom in the ingenuous propensity to trust, which belongs to honest and noble natures.

~ Harriet Beecher Stowe

The day you learn to be publically specific in your prayer, that is the day you will discover power.

~ David Wilkerson

For several centuries, the Celtic church of Ireland was spared the Greek dualism of matter and spirit. They regarded the world with the clear vision of faith. When a young Celtic monk saw his cat catch a salmon swimming in shallow water, he cried, The power of the Lord is in the paw of the cat!

~ Brennan Manning

My righteousness is just as good as Jesus' righteousness, because it IS Jesus' righteousness!

~ E.w. Kenyon

Commonly men will only be brave as their fathers were brave, or timid.

~ Henry David Thoreau

Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit what it is. And the faith to trust our own admission. The admitting is often very difficult.

~ Julia Cameron

...those who break the law should be loved more and not less for their sin, for if we do not forgive then is sin added to sin and the end is death.

~ Elizabeth Goudge

Real faith comes when you facing a problem you can't help, you can't change, and you can't work it out

~ Cynthia A. Patterson

We are called to service in the kingdom of God. The Christian life is not about what you claim. It is about what you believe. True belief cannot be separated from what we do.

~ Tyler Edwards

The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens

~ Bahá'u'lláh

Atheists are my brothers and sisters of a different faith, and every word they speak speaks of faith. Like me, they go as far as the legs of reason will carry them -- and then they leap.

~ Yann Martel

So many things which once had distressed or revolted him — the speeches and pronouncements of the learned, their assertions and their prohibitions, their refusal to allow the universe to move — all seemed to him now merely ridiculous, non-existent, compared with the majestic reality, the flood of energy, which now revealed itself to him: omnipresent, unalterable in its truth, relentless in its development, untouchable in its serenity, maternal and unfailing in its protectiveness.

~ Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

Faith as the state of being ultimately concerned implies love, namely, the desire and urge toward the reunion of the seperated.

~ Paul Tillich

[A] great deal of what we believe we do not know firsthand, instead we have faith in the knowledge of specialists.

~ Terry Eagleton

It's better to dare to dream big and achieve half of your dreams than to dream small dreams and achieve all

~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

In the end, only God can see the heart of an individual and distinguish the difference between legalistic deadweight and the passion of holy solemnity.

~ Criss Jami

The force that played havoc with the cortisol in my blood was the same force that helped my body recover; if I felt better one day and worse the next, it was unchanged. It chose no side. It gave the girl next to me in the hospital pneumonia; it also gave her white blood cells that would resist the infection. And the atoms in those cells, and the nuclei in those atoms, the same bits of carbon that were being spun into new planets in some corner of space without a name. My insignificance had become unspeakably beautiful to me. That unified force was a god too massive, too inhuman, to resist with the atheism in which I had been brought up. I became a zealot without a religion.

~ G. Willow Wilson

We will experience the life we have the faith to experience.

~ Julia Cameron

Believe, my child. Faith is the food of survival.

~ Tobsha Learner

Could a body broken and blood spilled two thousand years ago restore my own damaged life?

~ Frederica Mathewes-Green

For years I was deathly afraid of my own weaknesses, but when I closed my eyes and let myself be vulnerable to them it allowed miracles to take place. Miracles that were only alive when I accessed my BLIND faith.

~ Bethany Brookbank

Everything we do for God will be the overflow of intimacy with God.

~ Dan Baumann

...the ongoing suspicion that scientific discoveries or rigorous biblical scholarship will undermine faith is a tacit admission that faith is threatened by knowledge, because it is ultimately constructed on weak or faulty assumptions and, like the proverbial house of cards, needs to be protected from collapsing. (p. 21)

~ Robin R. Meyers

Any profession of faith…entrusts the mind and heart to a truth that cannot be proven but can be lived.

~ Luke Timothy Johnson

You didn’t just automatically become a Christian, did you? You weren’t made a Christian by just going to church. Just like you are not made a car by sitting in a garage all day! You have to make a decision.

~ Corallie Buchanan

All over India, all over the world, as the sun or the shadow of darkness moves from east to west, the call to prayer moves with it, and people kneel down in a wave to pray to God. Five waves each day - one for each namaaz - ripple across the globe from longitude to longitude. The component elements change direction, like iron filings near a magnet - towards the house of God in Mecca.

~ Vikram Seth

...they needed someone to explain, to spin, the parts of the tale that couldn't be suppressed. Someone reputable and educated. Someone brilliant yet absolutely committed to the faith. Someone like my father.

~ Martha N. Beck

Sometimes asking God for a reason for something is like asking Him why the sky is blue. There is a complex, scientific reason for it, Claire, but most children, including you, are content with knowing it is blue because it is. If we understood everything about everything, we would have no need for faith.

~ Susan Meissner

Sometimes, the scariest thing you will ever have to do is trust God to fight the battles you can no longer fight.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Wings are like dreams. Before each flight, a bird takes a small jump, a leap of faith, believing that its wings will work. That jump can only be made with rock solid feet.

~ J.r. Rim